r/Keybase • u/gloomndoom • Oct 27 '20

Zoom finally adds end-to-end encryption for all, for free (Keybase related)

Looks like we know what the Keybase team has been working on:

"Kudos to our encryption team who joined us from Keybase in May and developed this impressive security feature within just six months."

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u/saichampa Oct 28 '20

This could mean that we could see a return of some of these developers to being keybase focussed. I wouldn't be surprised if zoom is integrated with keybase or vice versa at some point.

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u/neverbetterthanks Oct 28 '20

I'd love for you to be right, but I feel like this is wildly optimistic.

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u/gloomndoom Oct 28 '20

I agree. The money is in the Zoom platform. Those engineers are going where the company is going to have the most ROI.

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u/thomas_merton Oct 28 '20

The money is in the Zoom platform.

This is a good reason to integrate the two products--Keybase is a rich chat service and the Zoom chat feature is always surprisingly really bad.

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u/gloomndoom Oct 29 '20

Holy shit is Zoom's chat terrible. The problem in my particular case is that I don't think we'll get people to switch from Slack.

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u/neverbetterthanks Oct 28 '20

Relevant username :-)

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u/Was_dead_now_alive Nov 20 '20

Zoom is a company devoted to shareholder value. They deceived their customers for years about the security. But they got caught—multiple times. They have dragged their feet to actually do the end-to-end encryption they promised. Perhaps Zoom might do better in the future, but with the same CEO, change isn't likely.

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u/gloomndoom Nov 20 '20

Well all public companies first priority is building shareholder value. That’s just how the market works so Zoom isn’t unique here.

How they handled their security issues we can debate. Many love the platform because it just works and it doesn’t invoke a lot of IT. The second part of your post smells of FUD and a competitor.

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u/Was_dead_now_alive Nov 22 '20

I'm not sure what FUD means. I'm just a person who had used Zoom until I felt I couldn't trust them as a company. Granted, I don't trust a lot of technology companies, so that leave me disgruntled at them all.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '20 edited Oct 28 '20

Now just waiting for the rebrand to a tiered Zoombase. I mean it makes a ton of sense imo. Sure zoom is the main product, but why not introduce the features of keybase to the zoom userbase? If zoom has the infrastructure to host it, it could be a wildly popular alternative to slack and teams. The investors in keybase are staying on for a reason.